A key element of Australia’s attempt to protect and leverage undersea cables in the Pacific will be led by management consultants after the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade outsourced its...
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The nation’s peak industry lobby AiGroup has called for immediate and substantial structural changes to Australia’s R&D system, with a key focus on commercialisation efforts, rather than simply pouring...
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The European Union is determined to enforce its full digital rule book no matter who is in charge of companies such as X, Meta, Apple and Tiktok or where...
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Alphabet’s Google needs strong measures imposed on it to prevent it from using its artificial intelligence products to extend its dominance in online search, a US Department of Justice...
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Australia’s innovation struggles are an intergenerational risk akin to the climate crisis, according to software powerhouse TechnologyOne, which on Thursday mapped out a “Team Australia” plan to fix it....
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Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge in the US has ruled, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for...
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Australian scientists have hatched a plan to recruit and repatriate US-based counterparts fleeing President Trump’s multi-billion-dollar research purge with competitive relocation packages. The Australian Academy of Science on Thursday...
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SpaceX, the rocket maker founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, has struck its first direct contract with the Australian government to supply its popular Starlink satellite internet service to...
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Science minister Ed Husic has dangled a $100 million upgrade to Perth’s largest science education centre if the Albanese government is re-elected, but says it will be up to...
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Transport for NSW’s (TfNSW’s) chief technology and innovation officer, Kurt Brissett has departed the agency after 9 years to join property developer Built as its chief digital and information...
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Christopher Krebs, whom President Donald Trump fired as head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in 2020, has announced he is leaving cybersecurity company SentinelOne following pressure...
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If there was $26 billion worth of potential investment in infrastructure for the resources sector on the table and ready to be spent in the next five years, governments...
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The federal government must use its generational review of the R&D system to link it to industry policy, according to robotics and artificial intelligence groups, which say the coordination...
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Industry minister Ed Husic says the federal government is committed to finalising its risk-based model for regulating AI despite pull-back in the United States and the European Union. In...